Although the metaphor has been studied throughout history mainly as a figure of speech which makes texts look more attractive, we have based our paper on the metaphor as a feature that belongs to cognitive linguistics. Thereby, it is understood as a process of categorization of meanings, common to all human beings. This project is aimed at exploring the different possibilities that the metaphor provides to teach Spanish as a foreign language: the metaphor as a tool which will help not only in the process of teaching and learning the Spanish culture, vocabulary and grammar, but also in the development of the metaphoric competence. Thus, the introduction of this competence will help students in the process of teaching and learning the new language; it will make them understand the different connections between domains, which lead to produce specific metaphorical expressions in Spanish. Therefore, the command of the metaphoric
competence will enable learners to create a conceptual system, which will allow them to understand and produce texts like a native speaker in the new language.